Comments on: Dave Pollard: a meditation on a world without property https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dave-pollard-a-meditation-on-a-world-without-property/2009/03/30 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:04:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Edward https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dave-pollard-a-meditation-on-a-world-without-property/2009/03/30/comment-page-1#comment-400836 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:47:37 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2604#comment-400836 There is no reason why a local economy would have to be zero-growth. In fact, it could have even more rapid growth than we currently have. I feel this zero-growth idea is a terrible meme.

With a global mesh network serving as the foundation of the Internet, and global energy grids serving as a means of instantly transmitting local power generation anywhere in the world, we could use this connectivity much as the Open Source community does to foster rapid innovation.

Growth is great as long as it is sustainable. The more growth the better, and eventually we’ll need to expand out into the Universe to sustain our growth, and this should be one of the most important long term goals of humanity… alongside defeating aging and prudently upgrading our happiness threshold and intelligence.

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